Agostino Mascardi
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Italian rhetorician, historian and poet
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Agostino Mascardi's Degrees
- Doctorate Rhetoric University of Turin
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Agostino Mascardi was an Italian rhetorician, historian and poet. Expelled from the Jesuit Order by his superiors, Mascardi pursued a successful career as a secretary for various important figures, and became a renowned writer and professor of rhetoric at the Sapienza University of Rome. He was a member of several learned societies and wrote a seminal treatise, "Dell'arte historica" advocating history as a powerful instrument of ethical and religious persuasion and largely focusing on the interplay between truth and believability.
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